I used to play that pretty hardcore. I mean, I played it a lot, not on the hardcore ascension path. I only ascended once, and the second time through was a lot more fun than the first with all the extra stuffs, but I never finished a second time....
One of my friends I used to live with and I are planning to get tattoos of the stick guy with a sword as a friend tattoo, since we both spent a lot of time playing that together back in the day.